Network
Tomorrow would've been a year since I last watched this film, but I made sure I watched again tonight. So I watched this film about a respected News anchor that goes crazy on the air, and instead of being fired, he gets a pat on the back and a show to do it again the next night.
Paddy Chayefsky's screenplay is definitely the greatest screenplay ever, and one that stood the test of the 50 years that passed since it's release. Before the dawn of Rupert Murdoch and his buying of the New York Post, Before the era of the 24 hour cable news, and even before Larry Ellison buys Paramount. We see CCA buying UBS and controlling the news that we see on our Television. This film predicts that news television will soon fall to the hand of all-powerful capitalist businessman, who wish to control the news and get the people to submit to them
This film shows the people of 1976 the dreadful future of our beloved TV in the year 2026, where TV is no longer something independent from business, but now a way for business to control our lives.